One off fishing occurences, tell me your tales.

[SandStorm]

Fishing in the lake Entrance NSW the wife caught an octopus it was clutching a VB bottle lol no kidding

[maztez]

Living in Darwin around the early 70's,We had a company house in Casuarina Drive and just across the road was what I termed "MY ROCK".
The set up was great ,there was a fish trap at the end of the rock giving about a 2 metre passage for fish to pass thru or turn seaward into the trap .
Many a night was spent there after castnetting poddy mullet and setting 2 x 100 lb handlines.
One night there with a mate and us tucking into the vegies and beef ( VB)bigtime I said to me mate Fred how we hadn't had a run for quite a while .
Investigating with the torch ,we couldn't see any water ........ the bloody tide had gone out and our poddys were high and dry and DEAD.
We didn't care it was a good night ,good company and good drinking territory style .
cheers Terry

[Just_chips]

Whilst fishing aboard a mixed charter on Laguna Cat out of Noosa about 10 years ago, one of the other punters on board ( a Greek tourist ) left his rod with line in water unattended leaning against the back of the boat after the skipper called lunch for the day. When the Skipper saw his rod at the back of the boat the way the guy had left it he told him in no uncertain terms to place it a little more sensibly either in one of the many holders or to get the line up. No sooner had he said this and the tip of the rod buckled over and the whole combo flew into the drink at a million miles an hour....GONE . Well the skipper let fly at this guy and let him know how many dollars he was up for when we returned etc for lost gear. About an hour later another of the tourists ( a little Japanese guy) on the boat hooked a decent fish which ended up being a red emperor around 8kg, the fish was gaffed and dragged aboard and there were handshakes and high fives alround. But wait a minute this fish had another line hanging out of it's gob, the deckie started pulling the line up and said there was some weight on it and eventually pulled in the rod that was lost over the side at lunch time, more handshakes and high fives . Then the Greek bloke started claiming that because he had hooked the fish first it should be his, but the little Japanese guy would have none of this and they ended up in quite a heated argument in which neither of them spoke a word of english just lots of gesturing towards rods and fish. Eventually the deckie just grabbed the fish and took the fillets off and handed one to each of the punters to settle a pretty silly argument.

I hope it comes across in print as funny as it was on the day. Certainly one of the stranger things I've seen whilst out fishing.

Kev

[rockfisho]

Fishing down the beach one time with my granddad. The fishing was a bit slow that day, we caught a few dart. But more to the point, we were catching lots of those small sand stingrays. we were getting rather annoyed. Then my granddad pulled in a big sting ray. It was pregnant. and while he was dehooking it, it gave birth to 7 babies. No joke!! So we threw them all back to annoy someone else. A new record for us, most fish ever caught on one hook ahahah.

cheer

Owen